Court grants Caetano Veloso confiscation of Olavo de Carvalho's book sales

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A Rio de Janeiro court granted the seizure of amounts collected from the sale of books by Olavo de Carvalho, who died in January 2022, to pay off the accumulated debts of Caetano Veloso.

The Rio de Janeiro court awarded the singer Caetano Veloso Confiscation of book sales funds Olavo de CarvalhoWho died in January 2022, so that he could get the amount he won after winning the case against the former president’s mentor. Jair Bolsonaro.

In 2017, Veloso filed a lawsuit after Bolsonaro's leader called him a pedophile on social media. In the same year, the court issued an injunction and decided to remove the content from the Internet, under penalty of a daily fine of 10,000 Brazilian reals. This never happened. The debt ended up accumulating more than 3 million Brazilian reals.

According to information obtained by TJ-RJ LandThe 50th Civil Court of Rio accepted the singer's defense request and ordered the confiscation of the amounts collected by Editora Record from the sale of Carvalho's books.

The decision was made by Judge Guilherme Pedrosa López, who stated in the document that until the inventory is completed, the estate has the responsibility to repay the debts incurred during his lifetime.

The lawyer representing the estate of Olavo de Carvalho, when consulted, stated that he had not yet been notified of the decision and that it would respond directly to the case file.

The singer's press office responded that it does not intend to comment on this decision.

Report from Land He also contacted the publisher that sells the writer's books, but did not receive any response. The space remains open.

Historical

In 2019, writer Olavo de Carvalho filed a criminal complaint against Caetano Veloso after an article the musician published in Folha des Paulo. The document asked the singer to answer for crimes of defamation, slander and insult.

Olavo's lawyer Francisco Carlos Cabrera, who signed the petition, referred to the musician as a “scoundrel” and “a pervert dressed as a columnist” and said that Ike claimed to have been exiled (during the dictatorship), “but he never showed a document.” In his defense, Olafo said that the artist had dishonored him.

In 2021, a Rio court rejected another appeal by Bolsonaro's mentor, who claimed he was unable to pay the singer the full amount, and the debt continued.

Source: Redacao Terra